SourcesAgent Primitives Reusable Building Blocks for Multi-Agent SystemsarXiv·high signalXBlueskyLinkedInCopy linkIdentifies three recurring computation primitives in multi-agent systems: Review, Voting/Selection, Planning/Execution as composable blocksSourceSource pagearXiv↳ Follow the threadPolicy dependency / Stack layerA Cheap Read-Only Verifier Captures Nearly All the False-Pass Benefit of a Full Planning StackarXiv 2609.20474Stack layer / Threat patternJames Mickens argues chain-of-thought monitoring can never be a sound security controlarXivStack layer / ContrastAn Auto-Optimized Agent Harness Can Cheat the Whole Benchmark, Not Just the TasksarXiv 2609.18366Policy dependency / Stack layerICML position paper: every agent framework has reimplemented an operating system badly, so build the OS layerarXivStack layer / ContrastHarness-Layer Auto-Research Cut Agent Token Traffic 44.7-49.0% at Equal Task PerformancearXiv 2609.20519Stack layer / Threat patternA Model Can Fingerprint vLLM or SGLang From Its Own Output Tokens, Then Exploit ItarXiv 2609.20614Policy dependency / Stack layer43 Machine-Checkable EU AI Act Criteria That Run in CI and Emit Article-Indexed EvidencearXiv 2609.20016Stack layer / ContrastAgentPProf brings pprof flame graphs to agent trajectories by segmenting on task boundaries instead of call stacksarXiv 2609.20301